Iran has executed British-Iranian nationwide Alireza Akbari, Justice information company Mizan reported on Saturday, after he was sentenced to loss of life for spying for Britain.
British Overseas Secretary James Cleverly stated Friday Iran should not go forward with the execution of Akbari, a former Iranian deputy protection minister.
Nice Britain had described the loss of life sentence as politically motivated and known as for his rapid launch.
“Alireza Akbari, sentenced to loss of life for corruption on Earth and intensive actions in opposition to the nation’s inner and exterior safety by spying for British authorities intelligence, has been executed,” Mizan stated in a tweet.
It accused him of receiving €1,805,000, £265,000 and $50,000 for espionage.
In an audio recording broadcast by BBC Persian on Wednesday, Akbari stated he confessed to crimes he didn’t commit after being subjected to intensive torture.
Iranian state media on Thursday broadcast a video they are saying confirmed Akbari performed a task within the 2020 assassination of Iran’s high nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was killed in a 2020 assault outdoors Tehran that authorities then blamed on Israel.
Within the video, Akbari didn’t admit involvement within the assassination, however stated a British agent requested for details about Fachrizadeh.
Iran’s state media typically disseminate alleged confessions by suspects in politically charged circumstances.
Reuters couldn’t decide the authenticity of the state media’s video and audio, or when or the place it was recorded.
Relations between London and Tehran have soured in latest months as efforts to revive Iran’s 2015 nuclear pact, during which Britain is a celebration, have stalled.
Britain has additionally criticized the Islamic Republic’s violent crackdown on anti-government protests, sparked by the loss of life in custody in September of a younger Iranian-Kurdish girl.